Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Vampires: Sennadurek


Sennadurek is relatively quickly becoming my next favourite vampire. The biggest advantage in this 6cap is the text. The disciplines, and what is there to dislike about [AUS][dom], are nice but that text has become a really valuable effect on almost every table.

Sennadurek & Superior Auspex
I have become a huge fan of watching my Grandprey take a 1 bleed, look at my prey's hand and untap a vampire with Superior Auspex. This can also be used in an unexpected way on your predator, if you have a moderate amount of bloat to compensate.

Deliberately taking a 1-bleed from a predator trying to suck out untap. They will untap your minion for you, and potentially give you a look at another player's hand. You can also then use Superior Auspex to do all of the good things Auspex does; flick, block and reduce. Plus it saves you at least 1 untap especially if you can drive down a credible bleed to 1 using another vampire that is untapped (Martin Frankel, etc, etc, etc) by whatever Anti-Bleed Jedi-Mind-Tricks you can get.

This then gives your predator the edge, you resist bleeding your prey (and instead take other forward actions on your prey) and then wait until your predator loses the edge. You then untap Sennadurek, look at their hand and know just what is coming.

Sennadurek & Black Hand
Then we get to the strange options. Like Sennadurek Rush combat (and being able to use defence). Nose of the Hound + Cold Aura + Psychic Assault + Target: Vitals (Optional Taste of Vitae)... Rush at stealth (preferably against say... blockers/flickers of bleeds. Can't flick if you aren't ready...) set the range to long with Cold Aura, then ping for 2R or 4R unpreventable.

Other Auspex cards can possibly be tossed in and there are Yasmin the Black, Selena, Kestrelle Hayes, Ash Harrison & Blackhorse Tanner who are also Black Hand and have Superior Auspex (Note: They aren't all in legal groupings). You can potentially dig around and use a mix of Reunion Kamut and GtU to get out your all-seeing Black Hand vampires on the cheap. I may draft up a deck on this theme, if others don't beat me to it.

Other ideas...
Well Necromancy has 'fun' ideas, but other than making Masquers or Puppeteers, or maybe Ex Nihilo? I can't really think of anything nice for Necromancy Users that are not Giovannis.

If you have any good ideas for Sennadurek that I haven't thought of in the last few weeks, please add them in the comments. I am keen to hear from you all.

2 comments:

  1. How about clan impersonation and madness network? It worked for Masika. If you bleed out of turn, it will also trigger her special.

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  2. Yep, every great VTES Trick deck starts with the phrase "First you play Clan Impersonation...":P

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